Name: Flora Collins Age: 28 Hometown: Upper East Side Currently Lives: In a one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn Heights. Claim to Fame: Ms. Collins’s first novel, “Nanny Dearest,” a psychological thriller loosely based on an unsettling “babysitter situation that my family had when I was a child,” was highlighted by Vogue as one of “the best…
A methodical approach to dating, an open-mindedness about baseball and a mutual appreciation for a wager. These were a few of the elements that led Petra Schaefer and Bruce Hunsaker to fall in love. In 2015, Ms. Schaefer, recently divorced for a second time and having consulted a dating coach, decided that finding love again…
Audrey Han and Dong Frank Han met in the summer of 2012 when they sat next to each other at an investment banking internship run by Morgan Stanley in New York. But despite sharing a last name, Ms. Han, then a sophomore at Harvard, and Mr. Han, a junior at Yale, did not share a…
In the 1970s, Ms. Pyun said, a Western-style track suit would have indicated that the wearer had some level of education, or lived in a major metropolitan area, where other Western clothing styles, including denim and miniskirts, began to replace more modest, traditional styles of dress. “With a school or company logo,” she said, a…
Although the scientific literature makes a compelling case that our pets are good for us in many ways, research into the effects of co-sleeping is more limited.
Most people spend their 20s living with roommates. A few cobble together enough to buy a starter home. Petra Ecclestone isn’t like most people. In 2011, when she was 22, the London-born Formula One racing heiress bought one of the largest houses in the United States — Spelling Manor in Los Angeles — for $85…
Amber Amos It’s been almost 24 hours since Zendaya was named Fashion Icon at the 2021 CFDA Awards, and Law Roach is still on a high. “I think it’ll sink in within a day or two,” he tells ELLE.com over the phone. As the actress’s longtime stylist and image architect, the pressure was on Roach…
But he did enjoy cooking, and for years he had been making diary entries about meals he had prepared or eaten and menus he had perused. He filled his columns not just with recipes and cooking tips but with anecdotes and humor. For instance, in March 2000 he offered a solution of sorts to the…
Last September, when Remy Barnwell, 26, started dating Ben Podnar, who is white, she was hesitant to wear her hair in its natural state. As a Black woman, she was uncertain of how he would respond to her tightly coiled strands. On her first date with Mr. Podnar, Ms. Barnwell, a tax attorney in Washington,…
In 2014, as overdoses and deaths from prescription opioids were catapulting, gutting the budgets of local governments that were struggling to contain the damage, lawyers began working up a novel legal strategy to hold the pharmaceutical industry responsible. That approach, which in the ensuing years became the foundation for more than 3,000 lawsuits, was soundly…